Device for displaying graining effects.



E. M. GLAPP. A DEVIE FOB. DISPLAYING GBAINING EFFECTS. APPLICATION FILEDJULY 13. 190B.

954,928. Patentedn.12Y 1910.

ANnRw a. GRAHAM e0 PN rran sra FORD M. GLAPP, F CLEVELAND, CHIC,ASSIGNOR TO THE OHIO "iARNISI-I COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, CHIC, ACORPORATON 0F CHIC.

DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING GRAINING EFFECTS.

To all 107mm it may concern.'

Be it known that I, FORD M. CLAPP, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Devices for DisplayingGraining Effects, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide an attractive display deviceadapted to illustrate the effect of the application of paintersmaterials to a surface.

The device is designed particularly for use in displaying andadvertising the graining process invented by me and covered by my PatentNo. 839,353.

To this end, the invention includes a representation of an ungrainedsurface, a representation of a grained surface, and means for graduallysubstituting one for the other in a manner not at once apparent to theeye. fis the graining compound in my process is preferably employed witha graining tool having a handle and having approximately the shape of amallet, l prefer to increase the appropriateness and attractiveness byproviding such tool at the junction of the two surfaces. This grainernot only furnishes the means for operating the device but serves tocover the line dividing the new surface from the old and therebyincreases the illusion.

he invention is herein more fully described and its essentialcharacteristics set out in the claims.

ln the drawings, Figure l is a perspective of my display device; Fig. 2is a longitudinal section thereof; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of theshiftable plate within the device; Fig. 4 is a diagram showing thecourse of the flexible strip or it may be considered an edge view yofthat strip.

Referring to the parts by reference letters, A represents the bottomplate, B the top plate, and C the edge strip of a suitable frame or flatcasing. The plate B has a display opening Y). Within the casing is ashiftable plate D. This plate may be of .metal and is provided with atransverse strip (Z offset upwardly from its central port-ion as shownin Fig. 3, leaving a slot d beneath it.

E represents the head and e the pad of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed .Tuly 13, 1968.

latented rpr. l2, 1%10.

serial no. 443,233.

the graining tool, and F the handle. This head is secured to thetransverse strip cl of plate D. As shown, the securementis by nails G,which also hold the handle of the head. By this means, the plate D maybe shifted lengthwise of the casing by means of the handle F.

The representations of the old and new surfaces are printed or otherwiseformed on the strip of cloth or flexible member H. This strip is securedatits ends to the top plate B, beyond the ends of the opening b. Thestrip then passes from opposite directions toward the head E, and turnsdownwardly through the slot d in the plate D, beneath the strip CZ andthen passes backward under this plate and loops around a filling plateJ. ln other words, the course of the flexible strip is as follows: froma point above the opening I) e. at the left in Fig. 2) to a pointbeneath the head E, thence backwardly beneath the plate D to the lefthand end of the plate J, thence forwardly beneath the plate J to itsother end, thence backwardly over the plate J to the slot through theplate D beneath the head E, thence forwardly on the upper side of theplate D beneath the opening e to a point beyond the right hand end ofthat opening. This course of the flexible strip is illustrated in Fig.4. N ow, if a portion of the flexible strip designated 7L which isvisible below the grainer handle be printed with one representation, andthe portion of the flexible strip h which is visible between the headand the opposite end of the opening b be printed with anotherrepresentation, it will be evident that if the grainer is drawnlengthwise of the opening b, one of these representations willapparently be substituted for the other. Accordingly, I print .theportion 7L which is visible between the lower or right hand end of theopening b and the grainer head in its extreme left hand position torepresent an old ungrained floor for example, and l print the portion ofthe strip h which may be visible between the left hand end of theopening b and the head when in its extreme right hand position torepresent a completely grained floor. Thus when the mallet or grainingtool is at the upper end of the opening b, an ungrained floor appearsthrough the window; while when the graining tool is drawn down to thebottom of this window, a grained floor appears above the graining tool,as grained by my patented process, including the application of grainingcompound, manipulation by a graining tool, and covering with coloredvarnish.

It will be noticed that as the graining tool is drawn in one directionor the other, the visible portions of both the grained and the ungrainedsurfaces are made stationary, wherefore there is a very decidedillusion.

To malie the fiexible strip I-I pass easily around the edges of the slotCZ and also to reduce the size of that slot and bring it entirelybeneath the strip LI provide the U- shaped rub plates K, which fit overthe edges of the plate D made by the slot. d.

The shifting of the plate D shifts the plate J. The flexible strip,however, does not slide on the back of this strip relatively to it, andmay be anchored to the strip by glue, for example. lVhenever the plate Dis moved any distance, the plate J is moved by the strip twice that.distance, as will be readily understood, Accordingly, sufficient spaceis provided to allow this additional movement of the plate J. Theinterior parts are long enough to provide for the display at one time ofa strip of material substantially large as the sight opening. Itaccordingly results that the sight opening may be approximately onethird of the length of the easing;v that the plate B may beapproximately two thirds that length or twice the opening' B; and thatthe plate J may be one third that length, or about equal to the openingB.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

l. In a display device, the combination of a casing having an openingtherein, a representation of a graining tool extending transversely ofthe opening, a representation of an ungrained surface on one side of thetool and of a grained surface on the other side thereof7 and meanswhereby the movement of the tool causes the apparent substitution of oneof such surfaces for the other.

2. In a display device, the combination with a head of a graining tool,of a representation of an ungrained surface on one side thereof and of agrained surface on the other side, means whereby the movement of thehead in the direction to apparently travel over the ungrained surfacecauses the apparent substitution of the grained surface, and a handlefor moving the head.

3. A device for displaying` the effect of the application of paintersmaterials comprising a representation of the untreated surface, arepresentation of the treated surface, a movable representation of atool between such surfaces, and means for bringing one surface into viewand withdrawing the other from view.

4. In a display device, the combination of a representation of agraining tool, a repre sentation of an ung-rained surface on one sidethereof, and of a grained surface on the other side thereof, and meanswhereby the movement of the tool causes the apparent substitution of oneof such surfaces for the other.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto aHix my signature in the presence oftwo witnesses.

FORD M. CLAPP.

Vitnesses ALBERT I-I. BATES, BRENNAN B. IVEST.

